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Odds And Ends: Nats, Dodgers, Cardinals

By Tim Dierkes [December 12, 2007 at 7:05pm CST]

Couple of small signings and rumors on non-tender night:

The Nats have agreed with John Patterson, Ryan Wagner, and Luis Ayala to one-year deals. Wagner is coming off labrum surgery, and is expected to compete for a spot in the bullpen in Spring Training. Ayala tossed 42 decent innings after coming back from Tommy John surgery in June. After showing flashes of his potential in 2005, Patterson has hardly worked out over the past two years, but will get another shot this spring.

The Dodgers have signed 11 players to minor league deals with invitations to Spring Training: RHP Tanyon Sturtze, RHP Mike Koplove, RHP Brian Falkenborg, RHP Rick
Asadoorian, RHP Fernando Desgue, RHP Greg Jones, LHP Brian Shackelford,
OF John-Ford Griffin, 1B John Lindsey, IF Angel Chavez and C Danny
Ardoin. The addition of Sturtze, coupled with the presence of Scott Proctor, gives Joe Torre two of his favorite abuse cases over the past few years.

The Cardinals have signed former Athletic Ron Flores to a minor league deal with an invitation to Spring Training. He throws left-handed, hence will probably get a shot for the next three or four years, even if his performance is spotty. C Mark Johnson, RHP Hugo Castellanos and 3B Rico Washington have also been signed and extended an invite.

-Joe

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Tanyon Sturtze and Scott Proctor in LA. Now if only we can get a Mark Prior to Cincinnati deal I can laugh hysterically all year.

Posted by: ArodSucksAtLife | December 12, 2007 at 07:42 PM

Brian Shackelford...any relation to Rusty Shackelford!?

Posted by: Chillin | December 12, 2007 at 08:03 PM

I laughed out loud when I read Tanyon Sturtze, but then I remembered that he's Torre's boy, so it's not really that surprising.

Posted by: BrianTX | December 12, 2007 at 08:07 PM

This is officially Tanyon's third tour of duty with the Dodgers, even though he's never made a pro start with them.

December 19, 2003: Signed as a Free Agent with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

March 30, 2004: Released by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

March 30, 2004: Signed as a Free Agent with the Florida Marlins.

April 2, 2004: Released by the Florida Marlins.

April 8, 2004: Signed as a Free Agent with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

and after spending five weeks at AAA...

May 15, 2004: Traded by the Los Angeles Dodgers to the New York Yankees for Brian Myrow.

Not sure what the deal was with the three day stint with the fish...

Posted by: jumanjifan01 | December 12, 2007 at 08:17 PM

Ron Flores is the brother of the Cardinals other lefty set-up man Randy.

Posted by: frontdeskmike | December 12, 2007 at 09:27 PM

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